- Venue
- Oriel Barker Gallery, Amgueddfa Pontypool Museum
- Starts
- Sunday, January 17, 2010
- Ends
- Sunday, April 25, 2010
- Address
- Amgueddfa Pontypool Museum Park Buildings Pontypool Torfaen NP4 6JH
- Location
- Wales
This exhibition features 6 artists who observe and respond in different ways to the treescapes of the border region. Doug Eaton is interested in the paint surface and the way paint behaves as much as the subject. His semi-abstract acrylics are full of strong lines and rich layering of colour. Ursula Prosser’s bold, patterned lino cuts are a personal response to the landscape rather than an accurate record. Drawing and cutting en plein air, she endeavours to keep the spontaneity of her initial vision. Frances St Clair Miller worked for three years in Moccas Park to create a series of paintings and prints. Her balanced and sensitive etchings take the viewer through the year and seasons. Andy Watts takes inspiration from the changing colours and forms of trees and the way they grow individually yet in harmony. His carefully observed acrylic paintings have a meditative stillness about them. Brontë Woodruff uses watercolour in free and experimental ways, incorporating van Dyck crystals made from burnt walnut husks, natural beeswax and sea salt to give depth and dynamism. Richard has worked in Wellington Wood for four years. These drawings, colour swatches and watercolour sketches provide a springboard for larger watercolours and oil paintings in the studio. He seeks to convey the character of the wood and the experience of ‘being’ there.
